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Make half of the cookie dough chocolate and the other half plain, and chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour to cool.
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Put a little of the chocolate dough aside for the ribbon later.
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Flatten the dough into rectangles about 17 x 10 cm and 6-7 mm thick.
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Cut in half lengthwise.
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Put one strip of chocolate dough in between the two strips of plain and line them up so the edges are neat.
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Chill in the refrigerator to harden.
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Also go ahead and put the extra strip of chocolate dough in the refrigerator.
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Cut the dough from Step 3 into four even pieces.
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Then cut three of those pieces in half again.
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Flatten the remaining strip of chocolate dough so it matches the width of three of the pieces from Step 4.
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Cut into three strips.
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Put the chocolate strips from Step 5 in between the mixed strips from Step 4, and work with the dough to form into a square.
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You now have three pieces with a chocolate cross shape.
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There wasn't enough chocolate dough for the cookie dough from earlier... Harden the dough in the refrigerator.
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Once the dough has hardened, cut into cubes.
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You can probably get 9-10 cubes from each log.
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Bake the cookie cubes in the oven for 15 minutes at 170C (340F) and then lower the heat to 160C (320F) for 5 more minutes.
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They're done baking.
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The top should be lightly baked and the bottom should be nice and crispy.
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They are thick cookies, so make sure they are cooked all the way through.
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Using leftover chocolate dough from Step 1, cut out squares and use them to make ribbons like in the picture.
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Bake the ribbons for 8 minutes at 170C (338F).
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These are really small so be careful not to burn them.
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Once the ribbons have cooled, use melted chocolate as glue to stick a dragee in the middle of each ribbon.
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I put yellow dragees on the ribbons.
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Put chocolate on the present boxes too and stick dragees.
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I used silver ones.
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Put three on each side and one on each band of chocolate on the top.
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Lastly, stick the ribbon on with chocolate.
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Put the cookies in the refrigerator so they cool.
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And now you're done!
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It's a lot of work, but they turn out really cute.
